The top 10 chocolate recipes for leftover Easter eggs

As Easter approaches this weekend, it's time for us to gently loosen our waistbands and accept the inevitable: that we will be consuming an unfeasible level of creamy, moreish and sickly sweet chocolate in one relentless stream.

But if the average trawl of Easter eggs just doesn't cut it for you - or if you fancy flexing your creative skills - we've scoured the internet (and specifically, Pinterest) for some truly brilliant recipes with which to convert your seasonal haul.

From chocolate buttermilk pancakes with homemade salted caramel sauce to the intriguing-sounding Snickers superfan cupcakes, these creations are not for the fainthearted or calorie-shy. But they do promise chocolate satisfaction, in all its ganache-filled, brownie-infused and peanut butter-flavoured goodness. So go melt down your leftover chocolate and get stuck in!

7. The German Chocolate Cake Cookies

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Caramel pecan and coconut frosting combine in one wonderful fusion for this suitably lavish batch of German chocolate cake cookies. According to their creator, they are "hands down amazing, delicious, unbelievable, out of this world and the best cookie ever, as quoted by my friends and family that tried them".

8. The Whipped Chocolate Biscoff Milkshakes

Picturesque and tasty, these whipped chocolate biscoff milkshakes are ridiculously easy to make. All you need is ice-cream, milk, biscoff cookies and ice-cubes, and bingo! You'll have one of the best milkshakes you've ever tasted.

9. The Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Brownie Balls

What's better than a chocolate chip cookie? One that's ensconced in a brownie ball, of course. The average cookie may as well eat its heart out next to this astonishing truffle-cookie-brownie-chocolate-bomb amalgamation.

10. The Caramel Stuffed Brownies

We don't know about you, but we just can't resist a caramel-filled brownie. There's something about the fusion of freshly baked chocolate dough and gloopy sauce that just guarantees heaven in a bite...